Exploring

I was bored the other day so a friend and I ventured across the river to just see what was there. After checking out Alabama Outdoors, we followed the signs to Deerlick Creek Park. On the way there we passed what seemed to be a dam that I'm sure has something to do with that Hydro Electric Plant that is nearby. I had never seen a dam before and it was kinda cool to see where our electricity comes from, assuming that's what I was looking at.

After talking in class about how different means of producing power are pretty bad for the environment it was cool to see that an area which not only functions to help power our area, but also serves as a park and place for outdoor recreation. In addition to the parks I also saw several stands for deer hunting, as well as fishermen on the lake.

We also passed an old church built in the 1800s as well as "Dog trot cabin" which was built in 1837 by settlers and lived in until fairly recently. We stopped and checked both of those out. Pretty cool to see some local history. Weird to think about how this cabin which I drove up to along side a major road was built almost 200 years ago when there was nothing here.


We got to Deerlick Creek Park and paid the 2$ fee to the old pipe-smoking, tattooed old man and his wife. The Park was small but nice, and has places for camping as well as beach access! I'll probably go out there again sometime since it is only about twenty minutes from campus and is pretty secluded. It's nice to get off the busy campus every once in a while.
These are "Life Jugs" and are not to be played with. "Throw these to a drowning person, they may save a life."